Texting

In a modern society such as today, Ourdaily lives are bombarded with things that require our undivided attention. An example would be meetings. These days people have a little time to spend on themselves, let alone on recreational activities, Such as communicating with friends. Texting, a revolutionary tool, has enabled people to minimize the time needed by the means of communication i.e. a phone call. However texting has come under fire for education for its potential to ruin our language. Texting should be seen, by educators, for its potential to enable students to experience and manipulate the English language to help you enhance versatility, fluency, and communicative skills.

Texting provides many advantages, such as people greatly reduce the time a call would take, especially if the call would go to voicemail. The unnecessary time taken to call, wait for the person to pick up, if they don't you may have to leave a voicemail, which some people rarely check, all of the above would be avoided with a quick concise message that would remain in the recipients' phones' home screen until checked. Texting would come in handy to any student, such as myself. Texting should be incorporated, the same way email has, into the core of education for the years to come. If one could ponder a procrastinating first-year college student writing their first term paper for their English class and the stuck on how to write a thesis. So she sends an email to her professor, only being forced to wait, in anxiety for a reply. So she decides to write the paper anyway, with a weak thesis. If she would only be inclined to send her professor a quick text to help with her thesis, would've made on difference in a mediocre essay with a week thesis, and a strong essay with a complete revised thesis. The same incorporation would work for me and the classes that I take, especially with AP physics, however writer John Humphrys would completely disagree with me. In his essay, I H8 TXT MSGS: How Texting is Wrecking Our Language, he talks about, the drawbacks of texting and how it is ruining our language. He says that people misuse the ability to shorten words and the increased ambiguity and time needed to decipher the message, The same time that would've been used if the sender used complete sentences, Humphrys stated "I can work out BTW (by the way) but I was baffled by IMHO U R GR 8. It means: In My Humble Opinion You are Great." But, once again, how do you know?" Humphrys goes on to be quite cynical about the usage of texting. Humphrys would likely disagree with my thoughts on the widespread incorporation of student-teacher texting as part of the curriculum editing. I acknowledge that texting also harbors the disadvantages stated above but, certain limits should be instituted to compensate for the level of misused texting such as putting an undisable-able autocorrect text feature on future phones. However texting offers a tantamount of advantages that most certainly outweigh the disadvantages.

Some may be led to believe that texting is slowly, but surely, threatening to diminish our communication skills, but it actually does the opposite. Texting provides for increased communication between a number of people. Texting offers a lot of people who are too insecure to talk on the phones a safe place to have a chance to be who they want to be through the wonders of texting. Texting again is a time saver, Say for instance, you are in an important board meeting and you forget tell the nanny that you are running late, and you don't want to step outside because the meeting is that important, you could just communicate, in short, " I'm L8 Pls stay with Oliver an Xtra hour or so tks." You get to stay at ease without angering your boss. Texting and academic writing are two different things. I text and write papers but there is a line drawn that says you must conduct yourself in a certain way when it comes to your academics, however that doesn't mean you won't be tempted to write in "text-style" on your papers, but it is up to the writers' discretion not to use "text-style" writing.

Texting is a wonderful tool that many of us in this technocentric world cannot do without. Text provides for increased communication, decreased required time when making a call, and could provide for better communication between teachers and students for the students' inquires on their academic work. Technology is constantly evolving and the education system must keep up to provide their students the best possible and productive future attainable. Instead of people like John Humphrys disparaging texting, we must collectively think of ways to enhance text, just as email is so prominent in every aspect of our society today.